Typhlops marxi
Typhlops marxi | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Subphylum: | Vertebrata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Suborder: | Serpentes |
Infraorder: | Scolecophidia |
Family: | Typhlopidae |
Genus: | Typhlops |
Species: | T. marxi |
Binomial name | |
Typhlops marxi Wallach, 1993 | |
Synonyms[1] | |
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Typhlops marxi is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae.[2][3]
Etymology
The specific name, marxi, is in honor of American herpetologist Hymen Marx.[4]
References
- ↑ "Ramphotyphlops marxi ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
- ↑ "Typhlops". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved August 16, 2010.
- ↑ McDiarmid, Roy W., Jonathan A. Campbell, and T'Shaka A. Touré. 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp.
- ↑ Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M. 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Ramphotyphlops marxi, p. 170).
Further reading
- Wallach V. 1993. "A New Species of Blind Snake, Typhlops marxi, from the Philippines (Serpentes: Typhlopidae)". Raffles Bull. Zool. 41 (2): 263-278.
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